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Harriers, Black-tailed Godwit, Norfolk Plover, Bittern, 
eggs which I believe can hardly be procured there again, 
owing to the system of drainage of the fens, which has 
extinguished another old friend, the magnificent British 
insect, the Large Copper Butterfly. 
But this is not all you could get, for you could get 
taken in gloriously by purchasing eggs in the town, re- 
ceived no doubt from honest fenmen as Reeve’s, Snipe’s 
and Redshank’s; and retailed, according to their variety, 
under the high sounding titles of the rarest Limicolez. 
The mention of their titles reminds me that I have 
often wondered that an authoritative list has not, so far 
as I know, been published which has all éhe Synonyms of 
the various birds, this want, severely felt in the B.O.U. 
List, is made up for us in Mr. Seebohm’s admirable work. 
In that list to which I refer not even the szmgle syn- 
onym upon which the Americans have fixed for thezr own 
birds is quoted; a publication which is a bare List, or little 
more, might well have satisfied this want: but one must 
decide from other sources whether ‘the Lesser Scaup’ be 
the ‘ Little Blackhead’ of its native land: ‘Totanus Solita- 
rius’ be ‘Rhyacophilus Solitarius;’ ‘Puffinus Obscurus’ 
be ‘Puffinus Auduboni.’ 
To identify the species on this list, with those on 
European, and American lists one must turn to Seebohm’s 
volumes. 
There is one excellence however; which requires to 
be carried much further, the translation of the classical 
nomenclature: for much there is beyond the speculation 
of even a fair scholar, as the clumsy word Podilymbus 
with its surprising origin, which however is explained, 
and the nomenclature of the Alcidz also explained. 
Why in this list are proper names, used specifically, 
allowed but a small initial letter, boysi, adamsi, wolfi; 
